A BRITISH-THAI actress says her baby daughter was snatched from her by her estranged husband and a group of men on a Thailand street.
Selina Pearce, 25, claims the 16-month-old was taken from her car as she was about to drive away from a popular restaurant in Phuket City.
The former model, who now stars in Thai television dramas, says she had moved to Phuket City with baby Ayla without telling her husband, Bangkok-based property developer Ditsadetch Kanokwiriyasanti, after they began suffering marital difficulties.
She says she was reversing away from the Kanom Jeen restaurant on Friday when she was blocked in by the gang, which she says also included two police officers.
She alleges one man opened her car door and pinned her in the driver’s seat while another opened the back passenger door and forcibly took the infant from the arms of her nanny.
She added that, with the driver’s door being held open, she was unable to lock the car’s other doors.
“Ayla was crying, and I shouted out, ‘Don’t take my daughter away!” Pearce said.
She said that Mr Ditsadetch then took Ayla and shouted: “See you at the police station.”
Pearce went to Phuket City Police Station to file a report immediately after the incident.
When she arrived, she found Mr Ditsadetch’s lawyer, who had already filed a report of his own.
The statement he filed read: “I came to the police station on July 12 2019, at 12.30pm, to inform that on July 12 2019, at midday, Mr Ditsadetch Kanokwiriyasanti took his daughter, named Ayla Kanokwiriyasanti, who came to Phuket with her mother, Ms Selina Pearce, back to Bangkok because he is worried that the girl will not be well treated.
“I have informed this as evidence.”
Phuket City Police are now conducting a full investigation.
Explaining the circumstances leading up to the incident, Pearce said: “Previously, we have had problems together.
“I decided to move to Phuket without informing my husband.
“A week passed, and he contacted my father because I had blocked his phone number to spend time by myself.
“He flew to Phuket and spoke with my father for three hours (about taking Ayla back to Bangkok), but after they could not reach an agreement he got mad at me and did something.”
“My father and I have already told him that he can come to see his daughter anytime.
“I have never stopped him from seeing her, but I just need some time to be by myself and think about getting back together.”
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